If you've tried to find an affordable place to live in Broome County lately, you already know the numbers. Residents here recently ranked affordable housing their top concern, ahead of just about everything else on the list, and it's not hard to see why once you start looking at what's actually available and what it costs. How Broome County Organizations Can Apply for NY Housing FundsThe funding is split across eight programs, and there's a decent chance at least one applies to a project already on someone's radar locally. And the Community Development Block Grant program carries the second-largest allocation, $15 million, funding local programs that renovate owner-occupied homes or upgrade residential infrastructure for low- and moderate-income households. Why This Funding Matters for Southern Tier Housing CostsNone of this fixes the affordable housing shortage on its own, and anyone who has spent the last year apartment hunting or watching rents climb in Broome County knows that one round of state funding isn't a silver bullet.